Integration
Connect Avalara and BriefTape
When New Transaction fires in Avalara, your agent runs Find news stories by ticker in BriefTape, or New news story in BriefTape to Create Customer in Avalara. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.
What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.
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What do you want Avalara and BriefTape to do together?
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https://mcp.apiant.aiOne connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.
Set it up in your client
Claude Code
Run this in the directory you want to work in.
claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.aiStart Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.
Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)Claude, web and desktop
Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Cursor
Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Zed
Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app
Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Any other MCP client
Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Example flows
What Avalara and BriefTape can do together
From Avalara to BriefTape
When New Transaction in Avalara
then Find news stories by ticker in BriefTape
From BriefTape to Avalara
Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.
Everything your agent can do with Avalara and BriefTape
Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 20 actions
- New Transaction
Triggers when a new transaction is recorded for a company.
- Commit Transaction
Commits a transaction so it is included in tax filings.
- Create Customer
Creates a customer in a company, used for exemption certificate tracking.
- Delete Customer
Deletes a customer record from an AvaTax company, identified by its customer code.
- Get Company
Returns one company in your Avalara account.
- Get Customer
Returns a single customer record from an AvaTax company, looked up by its customer code.
- Get Tax Rates by Address
Returns the combined and per-jurisdiction sales tax rates for a street address.
- Get Transaction
Returns one transaction with its calculated tax.
- List Companies
Returns the companies in your Avalara account.
- List Customers
Returns the customers of one company.
- List items
Returns the items (products and their tax codes) defined for an AvaTax company, up to 1,000 records.
- List nexus
Returns the nexus declarations (jurisdictions where the company collects tax) for an AvaTax company.
- List Transactions
Returns the transactions recorded for one company.
- Refund Transaction
Creates a refund (return invoice) for a committed AvaTax sales transaction, fully, partially, tax-only or by percentage.
- Resolve Address
Validates an address and returns its normalized form with coordinates.
- Update Transaction
Adjusts an existing AvaTax transaction, replacing it with new document details and recalculating tax while keeping an audit record of the adjustment reason.
- Void Transaction
Voids a transaction so it no longer counts toward tax liability.
- New news story
Triggered when a new news story is created
- Find news stories by ticker
Finds the AI-summarized SEC filing news stories tagged with a stock ticker.
- Get story
Retrieves one news story, including its source filing link.
- List categories
Lists all active news story categories with their story counts.
- List news stories
Lists the latest AI-summarized news stories, optionally filtered by ticker or category.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
Avalara and BriefTape, answered
What can start an automation from Avalara?
Any of Avalara's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Transaction. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.
What can your agent do in BriefTape when something happens in Avalara?
Any of BriefTape's 4 actions, including Find news stories by ticker, Get story, List categories and List news stories. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from BriefTape to Avalara?
Yes. When something happens in BriefTape, your agent can act in Avalara too. This page covers both directions: BriefTape's triggers and Avalara's actions are listed here as well.
Do I have to build a connector for Avalara or BriefTape?
No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.
Can my AI client use Avalara and BriefTape without building an automation?
Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.
What happens when something fails?
Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.